I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.